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Amit Chaturvedi

Kolkata

Summary

Accomplished Associate Director with extensive experience in DevOps engineering, specializing in cloud services and infrastructure automation. Demonstrated success across leading organizations, including UBS, Accenture, Red Hat, TCS, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and OnMobile Global Limited.


Core Expertise:

  • Advanced proficiency in Kubernetes orchestration, managing high-availability clusters, and ensuring seamless deployments.
  • Building and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, enabling smooth and flexible application delivery.
  • Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Scalable risk modeling solutions on Microsoft Azure AKS for enterprise environments.
  • Compliance automation using HashiCorp Vault for secure secrets management.


Career Goal:
To leverage cutting-edge DevOps practices and cloud-based technologies to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and scalability in modern IT environments.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Director

UBS
12.2022 - Current
  • Project Overview: Senior DevOps Engineer for UBS's Advanced Compute Quantum Analytics (ACQA) platform, a strategic risk and analytics platform built entirely on Microsoft Azure AKS.
    Responsible for maintaining platform stability for production workloads running in AKS failover mode, ensuring high availability, resilience, and service continuity during infrastructure failures or maintenance.
  • Technical Expertise:
  • Azure Cloud: Managing Azure Cloud
  • Terraform: Building and managing scalable Azure infrastructure.
    AKS: Managing and enhancing Kubernetes clusters with production-grade solutions.
    HashiCorp Vault: Seamless secrets management for workloads.
    Python: Automating deployment workflows, statefulset restarts, and autoscaling.
    GitLab: CI/CD pipeline design and enhancements for flexibility and reliability.
    Ansible: Infrastructure automation and configuration management.
    Packer: Building custom, immutable VM images.
  • Key Contributions:
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Designed and continuously enhanced GitLab pipelines for flexible, seamless application deployment, testing, and production onboarding.
    Helm Solutions: Developed a generic Helm deployment solution to simplify application deployment in AKS, enabling end-users to deploy without Helm expertise.
    Secrets Management: Engineered a runtime secret sync solution to integrate with HashiCorp Vault, ensuring zero downtime for pods.
    Workload Identity Automation: Automated end-to-end workload identity integration with federated identity for application authentication.
  • Automation Initiatives: Developed Python scripts for tasks such as deployment automation, uami and federated creation for work load identity, statefulset restarts, and autoscaling, leveraging GitLab webhooks and issue integrations.
    Built an AKS cluster upgrade solution using Python and GitLab to streamline cluster updates.
  • Day-to-Day Responsibilities: Provided support for application owners, resolving deployment issues and improving workflows.
    Collaborated on Azure infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring scalability and reliability.
    Continuously improved operational processes to enhance platform stability and scalability.
  • Scalable, Resilient Solutions: Focused on delivering scalable, efficient tools for risk modeling and analytics across multiple asset classes.
    Ensured alignment with high availability and disaster recovery requirements.

Associate Manager

Accenture
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Role Overview:DevOps Engineer supporting the DevOps stream for Renault.
    Focused on maintaining platform stability, managing infrastructure, and enabling seamless application deployment.
  • Deployment & CI/CD Expertise:Utilized GitLab CI/CD to manage end-to-end deployment pipelines into production.
    Assisted application teams in troubleshooting and resolving pipeline issues, ensuring smooth workflows.
  • Infrastructure Management:Collaborated with the client's DevOps team to provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
    Performed quarterly Kubernetes cluster upgrades, ensuring up-to-date and secure environments.
    Regularly patched Linux VMs to maintain compliance and security.
  • Kubernetes & Helm:Assisted application teams in writing and onboarding applications on Kubernetes clusters using Helm charts, simplifying deployment processes.
    Monitored and responded to Kubernetes alerts daily, proactively addressing issues to keep the platform stable.
  • Secrets Management & Compliance:Automated HashiCorp Vault secret rotation to maintain compliance with security standards.
    Created compliance images for virtual machines using Packer, ensuring adherence to organizational policies.
  • Ad Hoc Support & ITIL Processes:Provisioned infrastructure as required on an ad hoc basis, adhering to ITIL processes for change management.
    Supported IT teams by implementing best practices for infrastructure and pipeline maintenance.
  • Automation Focus:Developed automation solutions to enhance compliance, streamline provisioning, and optimize operational workflows.

Senior Support Engineer

Redhat
12.2020 - 08.2021
  • Role Overview: OpenShift Support Engineer, responsible for addressing and resolving customer issues across various severity levels (Sev1 to Sev4).
  • Customer Support: Assisted customers with installation and upgrade issues to ensure smooth deployment and platform maintenance.
    Troubleshot and resolved issues related to operator installation, upgrades, and downgrades.
    Provided support for image registry and mirror registry configurations and related challenges.
    Diagnosed and fixed issues with Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) to ensure seamless operator functionality.
  • Cluster Management: Resolved cluster node-related issues, ensuring optimal performance and stability.
    Addressed and resolved certificate-related issues, maintaining secure cluster communication.
  • Key Strengths: Delivered high-quality support to customers, maintaining operational continuity for critical OpenShift workloads.
    Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills and expertise in OpenShift, consistently meeting customer expectations.

Associate Consultant

TCS
04.2019 - 12.2020
  • AWS Cloud Migration & Infrastructure:Migrated on-premises servers to AWS Cloud using CloudEndure, ensuring minimal downtime.
    Designed and provisioned AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation for scalable and reliable deployments.
  • Container Orchestration:Managed ECS services and migrated applications to ECS for improved scalability.
    Administered EKS clusters for DEV, QA, and Production teams, ensuring efficient cluster operations.
  • Kubernetes & Application Support:Assisted application teams by creating and managing backend storage, secrets, ConfigMaps, Ingress controllers, PV, and PVCs.
    Created and managed YAML files to deploy applications efficiently.
  • CI/CD Pipelines:Developed and managed Jenkins pipelines to deploy applications to EKS clusters.
    Configured Jenkins jobs for automated builds and post-build deployments using Ansible Tower and custom playbooks.
  • AWS Automation:Created Lambda functions to automate AWS resource management (e.g., EC2, RDS, SGs).
    Configured CloudWatch rules and events, integrating with SNS for proactive alerting.
    Enabled cross-region and cross-account replication of AWS services for redundancy and disaster recovery.
  • Security & Compliance: Utilized AWS Inspector to scan AWS resources for vulnerabilities and ensure compliance.
    Scheduled regular backups of instances and RDS databases for data protection and disaster recovery.
  • Load Balancing & Traffic Management: Set up and managed NLB (Network Load Balancers) and ALB (Application Load Balancers) for ECS deployments to ensure optimal traffic distribution and high availability.
  • Backup & Recovery: Automated backup schedules for instances and RDS databases, ensuring business continuity.
  • Key Strengths: Expertise in AWS resource management and automation.
    Strong focus on containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code for efficient operations.
    Comprehensive support for application teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.

Senior Linux Administrator

Accenture
07.2017 - 04.2019
  • Containerization: Built Docker containers tailored for QA and development teams using Dockerfiles, aligning with specific testing requirements.
    Managed Docker environments to provide seamless deployment solutions for application teams.
  • RedHat Cluster & NFS: Administered RedHat clusters, including adding and managing NFS resources for scalable storage solutions.
  • Infrastructure Management: Automated EC2 instance provisioning and decommissioning based on client requests using Ansible playbooks.
    Created and extended disks on EC2 instances to meet storage requirements.
    Managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform and created custom AMIs using Packer.
  • Networking & Security: Configured and managed Security Groups and ACLs to align with client security policies.
    Managed VPCs, including NAT Gateways, for different environments to ensure secure and efficient network architecture.
  • Data Management: Administered EBS volumes and S3 buckets, including site replication for critical client data, ensuring data availability and redundancy.
  • Automation with Ansible: Developed and managed Ansible playbooks for user management, Apache instance deployment, and JBoss application setups.
    Created and scheduled Ansible jobs via Jenkins for efficient automation.
  • Server Maintenance & Patching: Performed monthly patching for SUSE servers across environments using SUMA and RHN, maintaining compliance and security.
    Conducted regular server maintenance and monitoring to ensure optimal performance.
  • Key Strengths: Strong expertise in automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Packer for efficient infrastructure management.
    Skilled in containerization, networking, and security management for cloud and on-premises environments.
    Proficient in server maintenance and data replication to ensure system stability and data availability.

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2016 - 07.2017
  • Red Hat Linux Administration: Configured and managed Red Hat Linux servers (versions 6.5 and 6.8).
    Administered a 4-node Red Hat Cluster for Apache and WebMethod Broker Services, ensuring high availability and resilience.
  • Patch Management: Applied monthly security patches on Linux operating systems using Satellite Server.
    Performed kernel patch upgrades regularly to maintain system stability and compliance.
  • Virtual Machine Management: Created and deployed VMs using PXE boot for infrastructure provisioning.
    Managed Linux VMs and registered them with Satellite Server for streamlined management and updates.
  • Application Support: Set up Apache and Tomcat instances for the application team to support deployment requirements.
  • Database Disk Management: Worked on ASM disk creation for Oracle databases, ensuring proper storage configuration for database operations.
  • Vendor Collaboration: Collaborated with vendors to resolve issues related to third-party products, ensuring seamless operations and quick issue resolution.
  • Key Strengths: Expertise in managing Red Hat servers and clusters for critical services.
    Strong patching and infrastructure management skills using Satellite Server.
    Proficient in setting up application services and database disk management for enterprise environments.

Information Technology Operations Analyst

Accenture
07.2014 - 05.2016
  • Web Server Administration: Configured and supported Apache and Tomcat services for application deployment and management.
  • Linux Administration: Managed and configured Red Hat Linux (6.5) servers, ensuring system stability and performance.
    Administered a 4-node Red Hat Cluster for high availability and efficient resource management.
  • Patch Management: Applied monthly security patches and conducted kernel patch upgrades to maintain compliance and system integrity.
  • User Access Management: Managed user access with a least privilege approach, adhering to security best practices.
  • Virtual Machine Management: Created and managed virtual machines (VMs) to support infrastructure needs and scaling requirements.
  • Storage Management: Configured and managed OS-level storage using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for flexible storage provisioning.
  • Issue Resolution: Collaborated with Red Hat support for OS-level troubleshooting and issue resolution.
    Worked closely with vendors to diagnose and resolve product-related issues effectively.
  • Key Strengths: Extensive experience in Linux server and cluster management.
    Proficient in patching, storage management, and user access security.
    Strong collaboration skills with vendors and support teams for rapid issue resolution

Operations Engineer

Onmobile Global Limited
04.2011 - 07.2013
  • Linux Operating System Administration: Installed and maintained Linux Operating Systems (CentOS 5.3, 5.7) and configured servers in network environments as per project requirements.
    Performed routine checks, monitored servers, and implemented troubleshooting to ensure system reliability.
  • Cluster Management: Configured and managed Red Hat Clusters to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Web Server Administration: Configured and maintained Apache web servers integrated with Tomcat web servers for hosting applications.
    Deployed new jar releases for Tomcat applications and supported ongoing maintenance.
  • LDAP and DNS Administration: Configured and managed LDAP servers and clients to centralize authentication and authorization.
    Set up Master and Slave DNS servers, handled host entries based on project requirements, and ensured effective DNS management.
  • Server Provisioning and Network Services: Installed and configured HP (G6, G7) and virtual servers to support infrastructure needs.
    Configured and managed DHCP servers to automate IP assignment across network hosts.
    Shared data securely using NFS and Samba servers.
  • System Maintenance and Upgrades: Performed system upgrades by applying Linux patches to maintain compliance and system performance.
    Managed users, groups, quotas, and file systems, troubleshooting issues as needed.
  • Automation and Scripting:Created, extended, and managed scripts to enhance Linux system functionality.
    Documented scripts for future reference and ensured regular backups of critical files.
  • Log and Monitoring Systems: Configured and maintained log servers for effective monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Key Strengths: Expertise in Linux administration, web server configuration, and cluster management.
    Strong skills in network services (DNS, DHCP, LDAP) and system monitoring.
    Proficient in automating tasks using scripts and ensuring robust backup and documentation practices.

Education

Masters - Computer Application

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Lucknow, IN-UP
2010

Graduation - Computer Applications

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University
Bareilly, IN-UP
2007

12TH - Science

Uttar Pradesh State Board
2004

10TH - Science

Uttar Pradesh State Board
2001

Skills

  • DevOps practices

  • Results-Driven approach

  • IT project management tools

  • Cloud services

  • IT operations knowledge

  • Kubernetes orchestration

  • Programming and design skills

  • Infrastructure automation

  • Best practices and standards

  • CICD

Certification

  • Redhat Certified Security Specialist - Red Hat
  • Redhat Certified System Engineer - Red Hat
  • Istio Certified Associate - Tetrate
  • Terraform Certified Associate - HashiCorp
  • Vault Certified Associate - HashiCorp
  • Docker Certified Associate - Docker, Inc
  • Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate - Amazon Web Services
  • Certified Kubernetes Security - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
    (CNCF)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
  • Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower (DO409) - Red Hat
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration - Red Hat

Timeline

Associate Director

UBS
12.2022 - Current

Associate Manager

Accenture
08.2021 - 12.2022

Senior Support Engineer

Redhat
12.2020 - 08.2021

Associate Consultant

TCS
04.2019 - 12.2020

Senior Linux Administrator

Accenture
07.2017 - 04.2019

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2016 - 07.2017

Information Technology Operations Analyst

Accenture
07.2014 - 05.2016

Operations Engineer

Onmobile Global Limited
04.2011 - 07.2013

10TH - Science

Uttar Pradesh State Board

Masters - Computer Application

Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Graduation - Computer Applications

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

12TH - Science

Uttar Pradesh State Board

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